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Lexicon :: Strong's H2977 - yō'šîyâ

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יֹאשִׁיָּה
Transliteration
yō'šîyâ
Pronunciation
yo-shee-yaw'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same root as אָשְׁיָה (H803) and יָהּ (H3050)
Strong’s Definitions

יֹאשִׁיָּה Yôʼshîyâh, yo-shee-yaw'; or יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ Yôʼshîyâhûw; from the same root as H803 and H3050; founded of Jah; Joshijah, the name of two Israelites:—Josiah.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 53x

The KJV translates Strong's H2977 in the following manner: Josiah (53x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 53x
The KJV translates Strong's H2977 in the following manner: Josiah (53x).

  1. Josiah = "whom Jehovah heals"

    1. son of Amon by Jedidah who succeeded his father to the throne of Judah and reigned for 31 years; his reign is noteworthy for the great revivals back to the worship of Jehovah which he led

    2. a returned exile and son of Zephaniah at whose house took place the solemn and symbolical crowning of Joshua the high priest in the time of Zechariah the prophet

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יֹאשִׁיָּה Yôʼshîyâh, yo-shee-yaw'; or יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ Yôʼshîyâhûw; from the same root as H803 and H3050; founded of Jah; Joshijah, the name of two Israelites:—Josiah.
STRONGS H2977: Abbreviations
יאֹשִׁיָּ֫הוּ, יאֹשִׁיָּה proper name, masculine (י׳ supporteth).
1. יאֹשִׁיָּהוּ king of Judah, son of Amon 1 Kings 13:2; 2 Kings 21:24, 26 + 11 times Kings, + 19 times Chronicles, + 17 times Jeremiah + Zephaniah 1:1; also יאֹו֯שִׁיָּהוּ Jeremiah 27:1.
2. יאֹשִׁיָּה a returned exile Zechariah 6:10.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Kings

13:2

2 Kings

21:24; 21:26

Jeremiah

27:1

Zephaniah

1:1

Zechariah

6:10

H2977

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2977 matches the Hebrew יֹאשִׁיָּה (yō'šîyâ),
which occurs 53 times in 48 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2 - Then he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, “O altar, altar! Thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, a child, Josiah by name, shall be born to the house of David; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men’s bones shall be burned on you.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:24 - But the people of the land executed all those who had conspired against King Amon. Then the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:26 - And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza. Then Josiah his son reigned in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:1 - Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:3 - Now it came to pass, in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the scribe, the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the house of the LORD, saying:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that were there on the mountain. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar, and defiled it according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 - Now Josiah also took away all the shrines of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD[fn] to anger; and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23 - But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this Passover was held before the LORD in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Moreover Josiah put away those who consulted mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:28 - Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:29 - In his days Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went to the aid of the king of Assyria, to the River Euphrates; and King Josiah went against him. And Pharaoh Necho killed him at Megiddo when he confronted him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30 - Then his servants moved his body in a chariot from Megiddo, brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, anointed him, and made him king in his father’s place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:34 - Then Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Pharaoh took Jehoahaz and went to Egypt, and he[fn] died there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 3:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:14 - Amon his son, and Josiah his son.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 3:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:15 - The sons of Josiah were Johanan the firstborn, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, and the fourth Shallum.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:25 - But the people of the land executed all those who had conspired against King Amon. Then the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:1 - Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33 - Thus Josiah removed all the abominations from all the country that belonged to the children of Israel, and made all who were present in Israel diligently serve the LORD their God. All his days they did not depart from following the LORD God of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1 - Now Josiah kept a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and they slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the first month.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7 - Then Josiah gave the lay people lambs and young goats from the flock, all for Passover offerings for all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, as well as three thousand cattle; these were from the king’s possessions.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:16 - So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the command of King Josiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:18 - There had been no Passover kept in Israel like that since the days of Samuel the prophet; and none of the kings of Israel had kept such a Passover as Josiah kept, with the priests and the Levites, all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this Passover was kept.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:20 - After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:22 - Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself so that he might fight with him, and did not heed the words of Necho from the mouth of God. So he came to fight in the Valley of Megiddo.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:23 - And the archers shot King Josiah; and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am severely wounded.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:24 - His servants therefore took him out of that chariot and put him in the second chariot that he had, and they brought him to Jerusalem. So he died, and was buried in one of the tombs of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:25 - Jeremiah also lamented for Josiah. And to this day all the singing men and the singing women speak of Josiah in their lamentations. They made it a custom in Israel; and indeed they are written in the Laments.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:26 - Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and his goodness, according to what was written in the Law of the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:1 - Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:2 - to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:3 - It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:6 - The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: “Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:11 - For thus says the LORD concerning Shallum[fn] the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, who went from this place: “He shall not return here anymore,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:18 - Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

“They shall not lament for him,
Saying, ‘Alas, my brother!’ or ‘Alas, my sister!’
They shall not lament for him,
Saying, ‘Alas, master!’ or ‘Alas, his glory!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:1 - The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:3 - “From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, this is the twenty-third year in which the word of the LORD has come to me; and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you have not listened.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:1 - In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the LORD, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:1 - In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim[fn] the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 35:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:1 - The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:1 - Now it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:2 - “Take a scroll of a book and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah even to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:9 - Now it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 37:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:1 - Now King Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 45:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:1 - The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the instruction of Jeremiah,[fn] in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:2 - Against Egypt. Concerning the army of Pharaoh Necho, king of Egypt, which was by the River Euphrates in Carchemish, and which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:1 - The word of the LORD which came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:10 - “Receive the gift from the captives—from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, who have come from Babylon—and go the same day and enter the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah.
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